Mothproof garment-bag.



e, ROTTMAN. MOTHPROOF GARMENT BAG.

APPLICATION FILED PBB.11, 1911.

995,571 Patented June 20, 1911.

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GEORGE ROTTMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MOTHPROOF GARMENT-BAG.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20', 1911.

Application filed February 11, 1911. Serial No. 607,969.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE Ro'r'rMAN, a subject of the Sultan of Turkey,and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MothproofGarment-Bags, of which the following is a specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to moth-proof garment bags, and the objectthereof is to provide improved means for closing and securing a bag ofthis class; a further object being to provide a bag of the classspecified of the usual form and which is open at one end and providedwith improved means for closing and securing the open end thereof.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fol lowing specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a back View of a bag of theclass specified made according to my invention and showing the bagclosed ;Fig. 2 a front view thereof ;Fig. 3 a perspective view of theopen end of the bag and showing the same open, and ;-Fig. t a section onthe 1ine H of Fig. 1 and showing the bag closed.

In the practice of my invention I provide a bag a which is oblong inform and open at one end. The bag a may be composed of any suitablematerial, or material such as is usually employed in bags of this class,and said bag is provided with bellows-shaped sides as shown at a in Fig.3, and the opening in one end of the bag is shown at a in said figure,and for the purpose of this description the side a will be called theback side of the bag and the side a the front side thereof, and saidside a is provided at the open end with a folding flap a, and securedtransversely of the inner side of the front a of the bag is areinforcing metal strip a through which is passed a central rivet b andtwo side rivets b Mounted on the central rivet b is a U- shaped clamp 0having a longer arm 0 and a shorter arm 0 and the longer arm 0 isprovided with a longitudinal slot 0 through which the rivet 6 passes;and mounted on the rivets b are U-shaped clamps d comprising a longerarm (Z and a shorter arm (i and the longer arms d of the clamps d areprovided with longitudinal slots (Z through which the rivets 5 pass, andthe clamps d are adapted to be moved laterally or transversely of thebag, while the clamp 0 is adapted to be moved longitudinally of the bag.

In the operation of closing the bag the front side a and back side a arepressed together at the open end and the flap (4 is folded thereover soas to close the opening thereinto, after which the front and back sideportions of the bag together with the flap a are folded over backwardlyon the dotted line 6, shown in Fig. 3, this fold being also shown at ein Fig. 4:, after which the clamps cl are moved inwardly transversely ofthe bag and into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the clamp 0 ismoved inwardly and longitudinally of the bag into the position shown insaid figures and also in Fig. 1, and this securely closes the open endof the bag, and in order to open the bag, all that is necessary is tomove the clamps c and (Z outwardly and unfold the open end of the bagand the flap a, into the position shown in Fig. 3.

The back of the bag is also provided transversely thereof with a metalkeeper f in which is pivoted a hanger f provided with a ring f wherebythe bag may be suspended in a closet, wardrobe or other place, from ahook, nail or other support, and, in practice, the bag may also beprovided inwardly of the open end thereof with hooks or other devicesfor the suspension of garments therein, in the same manner as other bagsof this class, but as these hooks or other devices form no part of myinvention, they are not shown and described.

While my invention is primarily intended as a receptacle for thereception and preservation of clothing it will be understood that a bagmade according to my invention may be used as a package receptacle forstoring and preserving various kinds and classes of articles and saidbag may be made of any desired dimensions.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A bag of the class described, said bag being open at one end, and oneside thereof at said end being provided with a folding flap, said bagbeing also provided at the open end with U-shaped keepers which areconnected with one side thereof adjacent to the side edges thereof andwhich are movable laterally, each of said keepers comprising a long anda short arm. and the long arms being provided with longitudinal slotsthrough which are passed rivets on which said keepers slide, and saidbag being also provided centrally of the open end with a U-shaped keeperwhich is connected with the same side thereof and which is movablelongitudinally of the bag and which comprises a long and a short arm andthe long arm of which is provided with a longitudinal slot through whichis passed a rivet, on which said keeper slides, said rivets beingattached to the bag. 15

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 10th day of February1911.

GEORGE ROTTMAN.

lVitnesses G. E. MULREANY, F. G. AT LEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe f Commissioner of Patents, Washington. D. G.

